GTA SOCIAL is a parody social site designed for Grand Theft Auto roleplayers and gamers. It functions as an in-universe social feed where players can: Post: Share images and texts for roleplaying as GTA characters or as themselves. Map: Tag in-game or real life locations for every post, via gta-social.com/map

Why GTA Social?

GTA is a franchise built on immersion and never hesitates to draw from reality. As tech advances, that immersion has only deepened; the relationship between the game and its players has become closer and more personal. I studied in Los Angeles, and my roommate was a GTA V guru; coming to college was his first time ever living in LA. Not surprisingly, it never really felt like his first time there. He knows Santa Monica like the back of his hand (kinda), and he notices all these little landmarks and attractions that most people in LA would never think twice about. He belongs to LA because he spent his teenage years in the sodium yellow lights of Los Santos, always trying to fight his way up towards Maze Bank Tower — even while he is half a world away. Ironically, I never played any Rockstar games because the new ones are always launched on consoles, I had the same relationship with Florence, Boston, Akihabara, and more.

But times have changed. NVIDIA is no longer just a gaming company, and it is a cliché to say a game is hyperrealistic. AI is so real that people are subscribing to AI OnlyFans. So even before the game launches, it is safe to say that GTA VI will feel close, maybe too close, to reality. And all this closeness creates intimacy, and this raises questions: What if someone from Florida wants to reflect on their life in Leonida? What if a player wants to bring the characters into Florida streets? That's why I created GTA Social: a fan website that mirrors how social media works today, so people can have a more interactive yet immersive relationship with everything in the game, in real life, and anything in between.